Help on amanda software configuration

[Ramesh Mopidevi]

Hi,
   I am trying to configure amanda for taking backups.We have succesfully
compiled the software and edited the amanda.conf file according to our
requirement.When we run the command /usr/local/sbin/amcheck -m confname it
is giving the following error:
"/usr/local/etc/amanda/confname/amanda.conf",line 0:default tapetype EXABYTE
not defined
amcheck: could not find config file
"/usr/local/etc/amanda/confname/amanda.conf"

Please help me out in this regard.

Ramesh.